From: Gary Wright <wright_gary_r@...>
Date: 2007-04-02T08:06:51+09:00
Subject: Re: How to use standard library?


On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Jamal Soueidan wrote:

>> If the string you pass to URI.parse corresponds to one of these  
>> types, then
>> parse returns an instance of the appropriate class. Otherwise, it  
>> will return an
>> instance of class URI::Generic
>
> I wonder actually how you knew that it will return one of these types
> and why do you think it will return Generic?

In the description of URI.parse it says:

    Creates one of the URI�s subclasses instance from the string

The documentation is quite sparse for URI.